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Is it history stories behind tarot cards?

Question : Is it history stories behind tarot cards?

Is each tarot cards based on true story? Is it history? Or is it fiction? like for an example, ‘The Hang Man’ is about the man hanging up side down for 9 days without eating, There he stays for nine days intent on finding his spiritual self.

Answer by PaulCypIt is 100% superstition.

Answer by E.H.It’s all about symbolism, interpretation, and intuition. Each card has an “original meaning”, however tarot cards are like artwork. It’s whatever YOU get out of them. To one person The Hanged Man could represent unlearned lessons, to another it could be interpreted as something completely different. Each card when interpreted individually are stringed together to form a story (in whichever spread the cards have been dealt).

Personally, when I look at the The Hanged Man card I do (indeed) see a person who has made mistakes but has yet to learn from them. The fact that he’s being hung denotes punishment. His face is depicted with a smirk, as if he’s unfazed by his punishment. Hence, he hasn’t learned anything. Kind of like a little kid cracking up while sitting in time out.

I remember taking an Art Interpretation class in college and hating it. I have no idea why I fell in love with Tarot cards when it’s much of the same thing. Whether or not someone believes in them, there are thousands of different tarot cards out there that can be admired and interpreted just for the artwork and symbolism in each of them.

Question : Is life actually like a novel that is loaded with omens, symbols, allusions and foreshadowing?

Authors put that stuff in I suppose to make their novels more interesting. But what if they put it in because they’re aware of that stuff existing, while most people aren’t aware of it, and all we need to do is look around to see that the future is revealing itself all the time like a deck of tarot cards?

Answer by Cuervoonly if you know what letters and words are .. I suppose.. but for those who dont… it is still revealing itself however!!

Answer by Phadriain books, symbolism is just another method of telling the story; like telling the audience a characters thoughts.
which is notoriously hard to do outside of fiction.

but certain things done in reality can be symbolic; returning a exes housekey or such like.
but things are only as important as the meaning we attach to them.
So, the more you go looking for meaning, the more of it you’ll think you see.
In reality, single magpies a cock crow in the afternoon or the clasp on a necklace coming to the front have no more meaning than rain in summer.

Answer by veganjacksonEverything that we go through can be seen as a learning experience. The world is loaded with meaning, but only once you come to interpret it. All stories are written with the benefit of being planned out – but in real life we sometimes miss things that could be clues. A more full awareness means you can take notice of the detail around you and try to work out what it means – but you won’t always be correct!

Answer by KaybeeLife is made up of two people…. those who believe in signs and miracles and those who believe that things just happen.

I believe the first one….. nothing happens by accident…. there are no coincidences in life.

Answer by loryntooForeshadowing, yes. It’s often called intuition. You’ve heard the expression “my mom has eyes in the back of her head.” Well, that is a survival trait. The women who could anticipate harm to their children had more children survive. They passed on their genes. This is also why more women can get flashes of the future than men. It’s linked to intuition.

Why don’t more men have intuition? It was not a desirable trait. The men who had it often didn’t go into the military and, if they did, they rarely got themselves into heroic situations because they could guess what was going to happen before it happened. As a result, they were less desirable mates and had either no children or very few.

Question : Help me interpret these tarot cards I pulled for myself?

I did a quick reading on my career and looking for work and I got: The Star, the Justice Card, 10 of pentacles and 6 of pentacles. Can someone help interpret?

Answer by Intuitive Readings Dot OrgYou will find success soon in something that you LOVE to do. Karmically, it is coming.

Answer by Curiosity/SatisfactionDidn’t you get a book to go with your cards?
It interprets each card,individually.

Watch this video on interpret tarot card

Hi! I am Kathy, a clairvoyant, clairaudient, and clairsentient psychic, as well as a fully-conscious medium. I do not use tools, so if you are looking for tarot, astrology or anything like that, sorry that’s not me!.

I have been psychic since childhood, tracing my abilities back several generations, through my mother and grandmother on my mom’s Irish side,and to at least my grandmother on my dad’s Polish side. We all get our gifts from God, and no other place.

The first time I really remember using my abilities was when I was about 10- we were lost on a trip to visit relatives who had bought a new house and farm in a different state. I was able to navigate our way to the relative’s house, and once there knew where everything was, even down to the silverware drawer! Deja vu, indeed!

25 Responses to “Is it history stories behind tarot cards?”

Hi John,
I’m fairly new to tarot. I just “discovered” you on youtube.
Thank you for these very informative videos. I enjoy your soothing mannerism and down to earth approach.
I’m lacking confidence reading for people other than myself or my daughter. The whole thing seems too vague; one card can mean﻿ so many different things.
Can you tell us a little about your background? I get the feeling you’re a psychology major.
Regards,
Barbara

I’m just starting to learn Tarot, although I bought my Rider Waite deck a few years ago. I had it out while watching your video, and when I turned it over, guess which card was on top? 7 of Pentacles (just after you pulled the same one!) =) ﻿ I really like your style (and your accent) and look forward to watching more of your videos. ~Blessings

Since it’s about getting information from the pictures, then you can apply the method I show with the Rider deck to any other pictorial deck,﻿ like the Gilded. So the 7 of Coins in the Gilded deck shows coins in a tree, so the card is about trees and so stability and truth and caring about those ideas, and not so much about hard work being its own reward, because trees don’t actually work, and don’t really need out help. The Course shows how to make sense of pictures to answer questions

About the Course – there are details at thetarot dot ca. Also, I’m putting together a members-only site for﻿ those who have the Course, so they can have access to on-going additional videos, audios and text about reading cards, tips, workbooks, and all sorts of goodies. The site will be free as a bonus to those who bought the Course. I am working on it, and will get it ready soon.

of course, as I am watching your videos again I realize most of what you do is read from the illustration﻿ and explain how that card’s images can help answer the question asked…I have a lot of homework ahead of me with all of your wonderful, informative videos. I love your style.

Awesome, thanks John. I would love﻿ to see some more videos of you interpreting cards using the artwork as opposed to book meanings, or in conjunction with book meanings. That would be a great learning tool.

No, I don’t read intuitively by just pulling stuff out of the air. That to me sounds too madam psychic at the carnival. I look at the illustrations on the card. In my case, I was using the Animals Divine deck, although I do use rider Waite deck as well. I drew the ten of Swords. It shows a heron attempting to balance on rotating swords. I read it as having trouble finding solid ground,﻿ trying to grasp something out of reach. I don’t think that was too from from the “book” meaning of inse

– and they can disagree if they want to and have a reason for﻿ their point of view, or say that the suggestion doesn’t make sense and that can start a useful discussion with the reader who then has a chance to explain the reasoning.

On the other hand, if you start with the image itself in the Rider deck -﻿ not with other decks – and use it as a starting point for analysis, then I think anyone will do a good job.

Is it using intuition? Maybe, but it’s also being logical based on the illustration that came up. At the same time the questioner can see a connection and understand how you are arriving at the answer or see the reason for the sugestions that are made

Some people﻿ just talk about anything that comes into their mind and give ‘good advice’ that is not in any way connected with the card, and call it ‘reading intuitively’. They’ll give names and predict future conditions passed on from their ‘intuition”. They sometimes say they don’t even need cards because they just know ‘intuitively’.